My first corporate job in the office complex above. Newport Beach, CA
America's #1 sales leader Mercedes-Benz dealership is across the street.
That wasn't enough of a motivator to keep me content.
Escape from
"Corporate Life"
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Tiny cubicles or offices, monotone color schemes, harsh flourescent lighting, stale recycled air, and featureless (Lifeless) buildings. Oddly enough, the people I have worked with have seldom been my primary gripe, though I won’t dismiss this in a few isolated incidents. It’s usually the environment. As if many of the people who designed America’s office buildings and interiors learned by adapting from a prison block. In the name of corporate efficiency! There’s also the nature of work when one is an “information” worker. An increasing number of people in America I might add. Staring at a computer screen, reams of paper being printed out (Wasted), constant emails, and compressed time schedules. I don’t want to be bending over picking fruit all day, everyday, in the hot sun, or performing some task that would certainly give me another kind of repetitive stress injury, but there must be a better balance. There is something about physical labor with physical results rather than just pushing paper around. Many I have met are resigned to this way of life - where one spends at least 50% of their waking hours.One even told me “This is as good as it gets.” Pathetic. There’s no perfect workplace, but it can be a lot better than what I have seen recently. I know it can be better – because I’ve experienced it.. |
My
first corporate job in the office complex above. Newport Beach, CA
America's
#1 sales leader Mercedes-Benz dealership is across the street.
That wasn't
enough of a motivator to keep me content.
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http://www.cnn.com/2001/CAREER/jobenvy/08/28/dilbert.scott.adams/ |
Dilbert |
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